| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: so; that they must not take by force what does not belong to
them. So it is only by teaching and training that people learn to
be honest and not to take what is not theirs. When this teaching
is not sufficient to make a man learn to be honest, or when there
is something in the man's nature that makes him not able to
learn, then he only lacks the opportunity to seize upon the
things he wants, just as he would do if he were a little child.
In the colonies at that time, as was just said, men were too few
and scattered to protect themselves against those who had made up
their minds to take by force that which they wanted, and so it
was that men lived an unrestrained and lawless life, such as we
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: His eyes fell at last on an odd chest, pleasantly and quaintly
carved, which stood in a dark corner of the room.
"Ah," he said, "I was forgetting, I have got something
to show you." Austin unlocked the chest, drew out a thick quarto
volume, laid it on the table, and resumed the cigar he had put
down.
"Did you know Arthur Meyrick the painter, Villiers?"
"A little; I met him two or three times at the house of
a friend of mine. What has become of him? I haven't heard his
name mentioned for some time."
"He's dead."
The Great God Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: became acquainted with this fact by the help of the same art of arithmetic,
you would acknowledge that we did?
ION: Yes.
SOCRATES: Tell me, then, what I was intending to ask you,--whether this
holds universally? Must the same art have the same subject of knowledge,
and different arts other subjects of knowledge?
ION: That is my opinion, Socrates.
SOCRATES: Then he who has no knowledge of a particular art will have no
right judgment of the sayings and doings of that art?
ION: Very true.
SOCRATES: Then which will be a better judge of the lines which you were
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